Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World WarKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008/11/26 - 880 ページ In Absolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history. The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human history. It was arguably the single most decisive factor of the war, and shaped the postwar world as we know it. In this magisterial work, Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the war, in which the fragile alliance between the two dictators was unceremoniously broken, and examines its far-reaching consequences, arguing that the cost of victory was ultimately too much for the Soviet Union to bear. With breadth of scope and a surfeit of new information, this is the definitive history of a conflict whose reverberations are still felt today. |
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... rivers in Siberia, flowing into the Arctic, are more than thirty miles wide, Chris commented. 'Anybody here in the Artillery? You haven't got a gun that can fire that far.' Point taken. Although we can now see that our perception of the ...
... river towards Asia, drinking beer and eating ice cream in the snow. As Churchill said of the Russians, a people who eat ice cream in the middle of their winter will never he beaten. And I especially remember the wisdom of a Czech ...
... river, with vansiiuirds iviidiinji out towards the Prnth, a distance of '-HID miles [ 1,440 km], accomplished in a single Marshal Stalin, whose authority enabled him to combine and control the movements of armies numbered by many ...
... River Khalkin Gol." Schulenberg got the impression that the Soviet Union had 'decided to conclude an agreement with Britain and Fiance', and recommended that Berlin try harder.''1 Hitler had already set the invasion of Poland for 1 ...
... Rivers Narew, Vistula and San. This meant that after Germany's invasion of Poland, the Soviet Union would acquire the eastern part of the country, known as 'western Belarus' and 'western Ukraine'. Whilst this partition - and the Soviet ...